Twitter acquires social analytics company Hotspots.io for its revenue engineering team [Updated]

The social analytics company Hotspots.io has been acquired by Twitter, and its team will be joining the revenue engineering department there, according to a splash page on its website. Update below.

The acquisition is a pure ‘acqui-hire’ as the team mentions that it will be working on developing analytics tools for Twitter’s advertising and publishing partners. The team includes Matt Huang, Alexander Spicer and Ashutosh Singhal. Hotspots.io is a YCombinator ’11 company.

We’re incredibly excited to announce that Twitter has acquired the Hotspots.io team!

Starting today, we’ll be joining up with Twitter’s revenue engineering team where our focus will be on developing analytics tools for Twitter’s advertising and publishing partners.

The team says that it “founded Hotspots.io with the vision of helping companies and individuals maximize their social media ROI through actionable and accessible analytics, and we’re thrilled to be able to continue that work on a much larger scale at Twitter.”